Kelly Wagner has been appointed interim director of the Dental Hygiene Program at the School of Dental Medicine.
Wagner graduated in 2007 from the University of Michigan with a bachelor of science degree in dental hygiene. In 2013, she earned a master of science in dental hygiene at the University of Maryland-Baltimore with a concentration in education. She has more than 10 years of experience in private practice and served as an adjunct faculty member at Northern Virginia Community College Dental Hygiene Program from 2014-18.
Her research interests include oral health literacy, patient outcomes in various delivery systems, and systemic diseases and oral inflammatory markers.